This is the front line in the battle to contain deforestation - police and environmental officials setting off in a convoy of vehicles, with armed soldiers from the national security force for added protection.

"The police are every day investing more in equipment and recently got new recruits - who are being brought as a priority to states in the north to combat deforestation."

"In regard to the wood, we have all sorts of problems -illegal logging, illegal transportation, illegal processing of the wood, fraud," he says.